A re-creation of the first American cookbook with added updated recipes and illustrations.

American Cookery 1796

Amelia Simmons

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Silverleaf Press

This charming retelling of a Japanese folktale couples stunning illustrations with a magical story of love, integrity, and self-sacrifice. The tale begins when a loving couple discovers a tiny baby girl in a thicket of bamboo stalks and takes her home to raise as their own. The Bamboo Princess, as she comes to be known, grows into womanhood while fending off suitors, caring for her new family, and ultimately fulfilling her destiny by returning to her true and rightful homethe moon. In the mold of traditional Japanese morality tales, this story reinforces values of bravery, hard work, and humility. A full explanation of the research and meticulous preparations behind the illustrator’s intricate artwork, which harkens back to time-honored Japanese block prints, is also included.

The Bamboo Cutter & the Moon Maiden: A Japanese Folk Tale

Children's Books

Williston, Teresa Pierce

Literature & Fiction

Success is not a distinction attained, but a quality strived for daily, according to this handsome volume of collected quotations and photographs. Conveying a single positive theme of consistent commitment, this collection provides motivation and advice for achieving real success through spectacular color photographs that beautifully complement treasured words of wisdom.

The Illustrated Book of Wisdom: Success (The Illustrated Book of Wisdom series)

Leatherwood Press

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Establishing a basis for open communication, unselfishness, and love, this collection of information culled from the author's years of counseling experience highlights 25 tactics for avoiding unhappiness and divorce, and caters to the emotional and social needs of spouses and the relationships between them. Fostering the need to develop physical and emotional intimacy, this guide helps couples create a fulfilling and lasting relationship throughout all stages of their married lives with a practical and user-friendly approach that reveals the complex and sensitive bonds of marriage.

25 Keys to a Great Marriage

Stahmann PhD, Robert F.

Wood PhD, Nathan D.

Addressing the modern issue of addiction to Internet pornography, this evaluation guides spouses struggling to find ways to confront this problem in their married lives. Calling on years of counseling experience and clinical study, the authors cover the most concerning issues of this addiction, from understanding the importance of disclosure to reestablishing trust for the success of a long-term marriage. Containing valuable information gathered from experience, research, and the testimonies of clients struggling to overcome these issues, this guide helps couples confront and overcome the hurdles of related activities such as illicit chat rooms, cybersex, and predatory behavior towards minors.

Confronting Your Spouse's Pornography Problem

Reid MSW, Rory C.

Gray LCSW, Dan

Addiction & Recovery

This beginner's guide to finding family history online takes readers through a simple, step-by-step process to help fill the gaps and holes in one's family network. Complete with a section of reviewed and recommended genealogy websites, this resource provides guidance on how to maximize the benefits of the Internet while avoiding less-than-reputable and unreliable sites. Peppered with amusing but encouraging personal stories, the author calls upon more than 30 years of genealogy experience to help readers hunt down their ancestral lines from all of the major countries of the world.

Finding Your Family on the Internet: The Ultimate Guide to Online Family History Research

Reference

Otterson, Michael

Genealogy

Useful household items—both beautiful and aromatic—are easy to make using this step-by-step guide to making herbal crafts. Projects include lavender sachets to freshen and protect the contents of drawers, padded coat hangers, and homemade dyes, inks, and watercolor paints in hazy reds and golds to decorate cloth and paper. For healthful, natural fragrance throughout the house, designs are featured for candles, scented writing paper, herb-filled pin cushions, and fragrant wreaths and garlands.

Herbal Crafts: More than 60 Simple Projects to Beautify Your Home and Body

Hawkins, Jessie

Alternative Medicine

This practical and informative guide for anyone wanting to learn all there is to know about organic methods for growing food includes step-by-step instructions for caring for your organic garden, as well as illustrations, charts, and tables on topics such as watering techniques, proper root depth for vegetables, and tips for mulching with a non-mulching mower. This comprehensive, lively, and detailed text holds the answer to virtually every question the budding organic gardener might have.

The Practical Organic Gardener

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Little, Brenda

Gardening & Landscape Design

For the prospective vegetable gardener who lacks the know-how or space, this fully illustrated handbook explains how anyone can raise a bumper crop—including clear and complete instructions on how to plan, plant, and care for everything from a container garden on an apartment balcony to a mini-farm in a large backyard. This encyclopedic guide discusses what and how much to grow and when and how to harvest each vegetable, and supplies all the detailed information needed to raise spectacular crops of everything from artichokes to zucchini, including a special section on herbs. Step-by-step instructions on the correct and safe ways to freeze, bottle, dry, and store harvested vegetables are also included.

The Encyclopedia of Vegetable Gardening

Tease kids' taste buds and tickle their imaginations with the 20 dreadfully wonderful recipes in this unique cookbook. Deceptively tasty confections, such as the Open Wound Cake and the Toenail Torte, are broken down into steps kids can do themselves and those grown-ups should supervise and each cake is rated on a one-to-five "worm scale" degrees of difficulty. These appalling concoctions are accompanied by full-color photographs and thorough instructions for creating a hideously delicious centerpiece for birthdays, holidays, school parties, and other occasions.

Gross-Out Cakes: The Kitty Litter Cake and Other Classics

Children's Cookbooks

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